Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-04

establish restrictions TO prevent the abuse
OF privileges reserved by said Convention
10 fishermen of the United States 70 agree
upon and recommend penalties to be ad-
Judgec, and such proceeding and jUHisdic-
! tlon as may be necessary 10 secure the
speedy trial and Judgment for rio-
lators of the rights and transgressofs
OF the limits and restrictions which
may be adopted. Pending definite
arrangement there was to be an abstentioA
rom seizing United States fishing vessels
unless found within three marine miles O.
the Canadian coast. Mr.. Bayard further
proposed that each country should send
national vessel to the Gulf and 10 the
south coast of Nova Scotia TO superintend
ishing operations and hear and examine
INTO any cases cf dispute which might arise.
Ii IS also suggested that fishing vessels OF
the United States are to have in Canadian
ports the same privileges as other vessels
OF the United States, including the pur-
ehase OF bait and other supplies, and that
ihe government of Great Britain is to re-
tease all United States fishing vessels now
under seizure for failing to report at Gus
TOM houses, and to refund all fines exacted
for such failure.
cANADA's REPLY.
A copy of this dispatch was duiy for
warded TO Canada, and under date Of De
cember 18th Lord Lansdowne forwarded
the reply of the Canadian Government
with regard to the first Article in Mr. Rav-
ards proposal. 1t says: "This reservation
involves the surrender of the exclusive
right to fishing in the BAYS which have
hitherto been regarded, as beyond all oues-
ton, within the territorial waters of
Canada-such, tor instance, as the right of
fishing in the inner waters of the Bav of
Chaleurs at points forty or fifty miles from
Its mouth, which, roughly speaking, NAV
be said to be less than twenty miles wide at
Its opening. Article IL. of the memoran-
dum preludges in favor of the United
States one of the most important points
which have been in dispute by deciding ad-
versely to the Canadian construction which
Is to be placed upon the Imperial and
Canadian statutes, the proper Interpretation
OF which IS at this moment the subject of
litigation before the Canadian Courts.
NArtcle3 3 was objected to as likely to lead
TO frustrating the ends of Justice by Con-
gress, and that before the inquiry COM
mences it is to place upon record an ad-
mission that it has been in the wrong
upon all the most important points in the
controversy. Such admission would in
volve public renunciation of the sub
stantial and valuable rights and privileges
lent as compensation. l trust that her
Majesty's Government, to the utmost of
its ability, will discourage the United
States from pressing the proposals in their
present shape"
A Steamer Founders OFF the Coast. with
All on Board.
HALIFAX N. S.), May 3d.-The steamer
John Knox, Captain Brolly, from Glasgow
for Montreal, foundered at Channel, n. F.,
yesterday, and all hands were lost.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
ST. JOHNS On. FL, May 3d-A terrible
disaster occurred yesterday at the south
west point of Chalmet Harbor The Glas-
Cow steamship John Knox, laden with
liquors. bricks and rolling stock, struck the
reefs near the channel of the harbor, and
sank in half an hour. Every soul on board
perished. furious gale of wind, with a
heavy landward sea and dense fog, pre-
vailed at the time. Some of the bodies
have been washed ashore.
Macdonald to be Made a Peer.
WINNIPEG, May 3d.-Hon. Gilbert Nc
Kusker, just returned from Ottawa, saws he
learned from Sir John Macdonald that he
(Sir john was to be raised to the Peerage
on the 21st of June. He will be given a
seat in the House of Lords, and will retire
from Canadian politics.